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Cluj Chamber Music Festival, now in its 4th edition, proposes a new perspective on chamber music — an open space where tradition and experimentation coexist. The programme moves across styles and eras, from Renaissance polyphony to jazz and crossover projects, bringing together international artists, established musicians, and emerging performers. Set within a network of unconventional venues — from churches to inner courtyards and alternative spaces — the festival creates connections and invites audiences to rediscover chamber music beyond conventional frameworks.

The concert Moonlight Strings: A Night with Brahms, Puccini & Rachmaninoff brings to the stage artists of the Romanian National Opera Cluj-Napoca Orchestra, in a setting different from the one audiences are most familiar with. While they are usually heard within the symphonic framework, here they appear in a chamber music context, where each musical voice gains direct exposure and dialogue becomes essential.

The programme is structured in two distinct formations — string quartet and piano trio — and brings together representative works of the Romantic repertoire. The quartet, formed by Vlad Baciu, Silvana Ghermet, Flaviu Ignat, and Vlad Rațiu, performs Crisantemi by Giacomo Puccini and the String Quartet No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The trio, featuring Cadmiel Boțac (piano), Diana Man (violin), and Vlad Rațiu (cello), brings to the fore the Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 by Johannes Brahms.

Beyond the repertoire itself, the concert proposes a shift in perspective: musicians accustomed to the sonic breadth of the orchestra are placed in an intimate setting, where precision, shared breathing, and subtlety become essential.

We invite you on Tuesday, May 12, at 8:00 PM, to the Casa NUMAA to discover Opera musicians in a different, more intimate and personal light.

Cluj Chamber Music Festival – 4th edition – does not propose a formula. It proposes a state of mind.
A festival that does not tell you how to listen to chamber music, but invites you to rediscover it.